Marc Schattorie at 14:30, 9 December 2012

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	At the time, an Asus spokesperson promised an investigation at "quite a high level",<!-- Since this section now mentions HOW it happened, can we remove this? --><!-- Disagree, it helps the reader understand the Asus response --> but declined to comment on how the files got on the machines and recovery media.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/224892/asus-ships-software-cracker-on-recovery-dvd.html \|title=News: Asus ships software cracker on recovery DVD \|publisher=PC Pro \|date=17 September 2008 \|accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref> It was demonstrated that an unattended installation of Windows Vista could accidentally copy material from a flash drive with a parameter in the "unattend.xml" file on the personal flash drive being used to script the installation.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Anthony \|last=Cargile \|title=Asus Recovery DVD scandal: How it happened \|url=http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/09/20/asus-recovery-dvd-scandal-how-it-happened/ \|work=The Coffee Desk \|date=20 September 2008 \|accessdate=18 February 2011\| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20110108213957/http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/09/20/asus-recovery-dvd-scandal-how-it-happened/\| archivedate= 8 January 2011 <!--DASHBot-->\| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|first=Timothy \|last=Lord \|title=How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks \|url=http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/22/0149222.shtml \|work=Slashdot \|publisher=Geeknet, Inc. \|date=22 September 2008 \|accessdate=18 February 2011}}</ref>		At the time, an Asus spokesperson promised an investigation at "quite a high level",<!-- Since this section now mentions HOW it happened, can we remove this? --><!-- Disagree, it helps the reader understand the Asus response --> but declined to comment on how the files got on the machines and recovery media.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/224892/asus-ships-software-cracker-on-recovery-dvd.html \|title=News: Asus ships software cracker on recovery DVD \|publisher=PC Pro \|date=17 September 2008 \|accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref> It was demonstrated that an unattended installation of Windows Vista could accidentally copy material from a flash drive with a parameter in the "unattend.xml" file on the personal flash drive being used to script the installation.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Anthony \|last=Cargile \|title=Asus Recovery DVD scandal: How it happened \|url=http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/09/20/asus-recovery-dvd-scandal-how-it-happened/ \|work=The Coffee Desk \|date=20 September 2008 \|accessdate=18 February 2011\| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20110108213957/http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2008/09/20/asus-recovery-dvd-scandal-how-it-happened/\| archivedate= 8 January 2011 <!--DASHBot-->\| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|first=Timothy \|last=Lord \|title=How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks \|url=http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/22/0149222.shtml \|work=Slashdot \|publisher=Geeknet, Inc. \|date=22 September 2008 \|accessdate=18 February 2011}}</ref>
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Marc Schattorie at 14:30, 9 December 2012

Marc Schattorie: Created page with "{{For|the Arts & Science Undergraduate Society|Queen's Faculty of Arts and Sciences}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox company | name = ASUSTeK Comput..."